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The Uses of Aristotle in Garamer\u27s Recovery of Consultative Reasoning: \u3cem\u3eSunesis\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eSungnômê\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eEpieikeia\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eSumbouleuesthai\u3c/em\u3e
Using Hans-Georg Gadamer\u27s exposition of Aristotle\u27s adjuncts to phronêsis, or the knowing that guides deliberation, namely understanding, forbearance, and clemency, this Article attempts to retrieve a communal reasoning still evident in Homer but increasingly covered over beginning with Plato and continuing through Hobbes and Locke, in the English-language tradition, and, more recently, Rawls and Toulmin. This Article shows that, in Gadamer\u27s reading of him, Aristotle emerges as a crucial interruption of this tendency of Western thought to abstract from the communal origins of reasoning and to start instead from what an isolated individual sees for himself or herself and only then communicates to someone else
Solar Spectroscopy using 50 Meters of Fiber Optic Cable and CCD Camera
Measurements of the variation of the Can K line profile using very modest equipment is discussed. The equipment used included a Spex 0.75 meter spectrometer, a Santa Barbara Instrument Group 16 bit ST-6 Charge Coupled Device (CCD) camera, fiber optic cable, and a 10-inch Cassegrain telescope. Observations were made in both regions of little or no solar activity as well as in regions of high solar activity (sunspots). A roughly 8% increase in Ca II K emission was observed over a sunspot. The combination of the unique observing apparatus and the intensity resolution of the CCD camera was essential for the success of the experiment
The Uses of Aristotle in Garamer\u27s Recovery of Consultative Reasoning: \u3cem\u3eSunesis\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eSungnômê\u3c/em\u3e, \u3cem\u3eEpieikeia\u3c/em\u3e, and \u3cem\u3eSumbouleuesthai\u3c/em\u3e
Using Hans-Georg Gadamer\u27s exposition of Aristotle\u27s adjuncts to phronêsis, or the knowing that guides deliberation, namely understanding, forbearance, and clemency, this Article attempts to retrieve a communal reasoning still evident in Homer but increasingly covered over beginning with Plato and continuing through Hobbes and Locke, in the English-language tradition, and, more recently, Rawls and Toulmin. This Article shows that, in Gadamer\u27s reading of him, Aristotle emerges as a crucial interruption of this tendency of Western thought to abstract from the communal origins of reasoning and to start instead from what an isolated individual sees for himself or herself and only then communicates to someone else
CCD Photometry at the UMR Observatory
During the summer of 1993 a number of advances at the University of Missouri-Rolla’s observatory have taken place. These advances range from cleaning the mirrors and polar aligning the 16-inch Cassegrain telescope to the acquisition of needed supporting material. A program for observing variable stars, implementing the newly acquired CCD1R image reduction program, searching galaxies for supernova, and the possibility of adding low resolution stellar spectroscopy to our research capabilities will be discussed. This manual will discuss how to implement the new CCDIR program
Elastic response of a nematic liquid crystal to an immersed nanowire
We study the immersion of a ferromagnetic nanowire within a nematic liquid
crystal using a lattice Boltzmann algorithm to solve the full three-dimensional
equations of hydrodynamics. We present an algorithm for including a moving
boundary, to simulate a nanowire, in a lattice Boltzmann simulation. The
nematic imposes a torque on a wire that increases linearly with the angle
between the wire and the equilibrium direction of the director field. By
rotation of these nanowires, one can determine the elastic constants of the
nematic.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figure
The Space Object Ontology
Achieving space domain awareness requires the
identification, characterization, and tracking of space objects.
Storing and leveraging associated space object data for purposes
such as hostile threat assessment, object identification, and
collision prediction and avoidance present further challenges.
Space objects are characterized according to a variety of
parameters including their identifiers, design specifications,
components, subsystems, capabilities, vulnerabilities, origins,
missions, orbital elements, patterns of life, processes, operational
statuses, and associated persons, organizations, or nations. The
Space Object Ontology provides a consensus-based realist
framework for formulating such characterizations in a
computable fashion. Space object data are aligned with classes
and relations in the Space Object Ontology and stored in a
dynamically updated Resource Description Framework triple
store, which can be queried to support space domain awareness
and the needs of spacecraft operators. This paper presents the
core of the Space Object Ontology, discusses its advantages over
other approaches to space object classification, and demonstrates
its ability to combine diverse sets of data from multiple sources
within an expandable framework. Finally, we show how the
ontology provides benefits for enhancing and maintaining longterm
space domain awareness
Long Term Comparison of Alternative Range Livestock Management Strategies Across Extended Droughts and Cyclical Prices
Variable precipitation, more importantly drought, impacts profitability for livestock management. Financial outcomes from management decisions related to forage shortages can be exacerbated by price variability. This research examines alternative management strategies to determine the potential profitability and riskiness over a long-term horizon and across various drought event scenarios. Results indicate that late calving can be a promising strategy, but it also can result in higher variability in profits as compared to some of the other strategies analyzed. Retaining ownership of steer calves over the winter, with the option to sell if forage supplies become scarce, outperforms both partial liquidation and summer feeding, and it results in less profit variability than late calving or early weaning.Production Economics, Productivity Analysis,
The Milky Way bar/bulge in proper motions: a 3D view from VIRAC & Gaia
© 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.We have derived absolute proper motions of the entire Galactic bulge region from VIRAC and Gaia. We present these as both integrated on-sky maps and, after isolating standard candle red clump (RC) stars, as a function of distance using RC magnitude as a proxy. These data provide a new global, 3-dimensional view of the Milky Way barred bulge kinematics. We find a gradient in the mean longitudinal proper motion, , between the different sides of the bar, which is sensitive to the bar pattern speed. The split RC has distinct proper motions and is colder than other stars at similar distance. The proper motion correlation map has a quadrupole pattern in all magnitude slices showing no evidence for a separate, more axisymmetric inner bulge component. The line-of-sight integrated kinematic maps show a high central velocity dispersion surrounded by a more asymmetric dispersion profile. is smallest, , near the minor axis and reaches near the disc plane. The integrated pattern signals a superposition of bar rotation and internal streaming motion, with the near part shrinking in latitude and the far part expanding. To understand and interpret these remarkable data, we compare to a made-to-measure barred dynamical model, folding in the VIRAC selection function to construct mock maps. We find that our model of the barred bulge, with a pattern speed of 37.5 , is able to reproduce all observed features impressively well. Dynamical models like this will be key to unlocking the full potential of these data.Peer reviewe
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